The Pleasure of Finding Things Out The Best

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynmanfrom interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.

Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.

Foreword by Freeman Dyson

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Editor's Introduction

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1 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

1

(26)

2 Computing Machines in the Future

27

(26)

3 Los Alamos from Below

53

(44)

4 What Is and What Should Be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society

97

(20)

5 There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom

117

(24)

6 The Value of Science

141

(10)

7 Richard P. Feynman's Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry

151

(20)

8 What Is Science?

171

(18)

9 The Smartest Man in the World

189

(16)

10 Cargo Cult Science: Some Remarks on Science, Pseudoscience, and Learning How to Not Fool Yourself

205

(12)

11 It's as Simple as One, Two, Three

217

(8)

12 Richard Feynman Builds a Universe

225

(20)

13 The Relation of Science and Religion

245

(14)

Acknowledgments

259

(2)

Index

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

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